I
backward
cast my e'e.
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So your
chimneys
I sweep, and in soot I sleep.
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He
lived about thirty miles northwest of Quebec; had been
nineteen
years
in the country; said he was disappointed that he was not brought to
America after all, but found himself still under British rule and
where his own language was not spoken; that many Scotch, Irish, and
English were disappointed in like manner, and either went to the
States or pushed up the river to Canada West, nearer to the States,
and where their language was spoken.
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And less my God to honour than I ought:
Through him my every thought
On a frail beauty blindly have I thrown;
In this my
counsellor
he stood alone,
Still prompt with cruel aid so to provoke
My young desire, that I
Hoped respite from his harsh and heavy yoke.
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Fond of rambling, I hunted the shark 'long the beach,
And no osprey in ether soared out of my reach;
And the bear that I pinched 'twixt my finger and thumb,
Like the lynx and the wolf, perished
harmless
and dumb.
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LONDON
I wandered through each
chartered
street,
Near where the chartered Thames does flow,
A mark in every face I meet,
Marks of weakness, marks of woe.
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Out into God's sweet air we went,
But not in wonted way,
For this man's face was white with fear,
And that man's face was grey,
And I never saw sad men who looked
So
wistfully
at the day.
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tarry with us still,
It is not quenched the torch of poesy,
The star that shook above the Eastern hill
Holds
unassailed
its argent armoury
From all the gathering gloom and fretful fight--
O tarry with us still!
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So, pine-like, the legend grew, strong-limbed and tall,
As the Gypsy child grows that eats crusts in the hall;
It sucked the whole strength of the earth and the sky,
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, all brought it supply;
'Twas a natural growth, and stood fearlessly there,
True part of the landscape as sea, land, and air; 30
For it grew in good times, ere the fashion it was
To force these wild births of the woods under glass,
And so, if 'tis told as it should be told,
Though 'twere sung under Venice's moonlight of gold,
You would hear the old voice of its mother, the pine,
Murmur sealike and
northern
through every line,
And the verses should grow, self-sustained and free,
Round the vibrating stem of the melody,
Like the lithe moonlit limbs of the parent tree.
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Come this way; come
quickly!
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Yeats |
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What has
happened
is, I believe, this: Donne here, as elsewhere, used
an obsolescent word, viz.
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Under his
spurning
feet the road
Like an arrowy Alpine river flowed,
And the landscape sped away behind
Like an ocean flying before the wind,
And the steed, like a bark fed with furnace fire,
Swept on, with his wild eye full of ire.
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[Illustration]
There was an old person of Brill,
Who
purchased
a shirt with a frill;
But they said, "Don't you wish, you mayn't look like a fish,
You obsequious old person of Brill?
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Lear - Nonsense |
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I
broidered
him a knightly scarf
With letters of my name
Margret, Margret.
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HE ACKNOWLEDGES THE WISDOM OF HER PAST
COLDNESS
TO HIM.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Around thee and above
Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black,
An ebon mass:
methinks
thou piercest it,
As with a wedge!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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_95
Therefore from nature's inner shrine,
Where gods and fiends in worship bend,
Majestic spirit, be it thine
The flame to seize, the veil to rend,
Where the vast snake
Eternity
_100
In charmed sleep doth ever lie.
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Shelley |
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And Old Brown,
Osawatomie
Brown,
May trouble you more than ever, when you've nailed his coffin
down!
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in compliance with any
particular
paper edition.
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However, he said that he
deliberated
at one time
whether he should dedicate himself to poetry or metaphysics; and,
resolving on the former, he educated himself for it, discarding in a
great measure his philosophical pursuits, and engaging himself in the
study of the poets of Greece, Italy, and England.
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Shelley |
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I bought them; but I was soon
afterwards
obliged to take
ship again; for war was renewed between the Pisans and the Milanese.
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Petrarch |
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That was the reason, as some folks say,
He fought so well on that
terrible
day.
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The kind of folk-spirit behind the poet is, indeed, different in the
_Iliad_ and
_Beowulf_
and the _Song of Roland_ from what it is in Milton
and Tasso and Virgil.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Lest the world should
separate
;
Sudden parting closer glues.
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Marvell - Poems |
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e fals[e] [[pg 74]]
opiniou{n}
of folk.
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With oar-strokes timing to their song,
They weave in simple lays
The pathos of remembered wrong,
The hope of better days,--
The triumph-note that Miriam sung,
The joy of uncaged birds:
Softening
with Afric's mellow tongue
Their broken Saxon words.
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Fie, fie upon thee,
strumpet!
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Shakespeare |
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I'll taste the unguent of your eyelids' shore,
To see if it can grant to the heart, at your blow,
The
insensibility
of stones and the azure.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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How it woke one April morn,
Fame shall tell;
As from Moultrie, close at hand,
And the
batteries
on the land,
Round its faint but fearless band
Shot and shell
Raining hid the doubtful light;
But they fought the hopeless fight
Long and well,
(Theirs the glory, ours the shame!
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ou graunt[en] it q{uo}d she by sembleable
resou{n}
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Father, this zeal is
anything
but well!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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In what
attention
wrapt she paused to hear
My life's sad course, of which she bade me speak!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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THE TRAVELLING BEAR
Grass-blades push up between the cobblestones
And catch the sun on their flat sides
Shooting
it back,
Gold and emerald,
Into the eyes of passers-by.
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Imagists |
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It is
certeyne
{and} establissed by lawe p{er}durable ?
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It was easy for Nietzsche to praise Wagner in Germany in 1876,
but
dangerous
at Paris in 1861 to declare war on Wagner's adverse
critics.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Now, ere decay my bloom devour
Or thin the
richness
of my blood,
Fain would I fall in youth's first flower,
The tigers' food.
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Then with eyes to the front all,
And with guns horizontal,
Stood our sires;
And the balls
whistled
deadly,
And in streams flashing redly
Blazed the fires;
As the roar
On the shore,
Swept the strong battle-breakers o'er the green-sodded acres
Of the plain;
And louder, louder, louder cracked the black gunpowder,
Cracking amain!
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'Tis not so great, by a long way,
As if you first, with tender twaddle,
And every sort of fiddle-faddle,
Your little doll should mould and knead,
As one in French
romances
may read.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project
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La Fontaine |
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Yet in his veins there flows a tide Of life's
illimitable
sea;
Yet in his heart there is a voice That calls, and will not let him be.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The stars, the elements, and Heaven have made
With blended powers a work beyond compare;
All their consenting influence, all their care,
To frame one perfect
creature
lent their aid.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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We cordially greet each other
In the old,
familiar
tone;
And we think, though we do not say it,
How old and gray he is grown!
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'
Page 62
402
Whon
Eufemian
hedde ?
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In a few cases,
where the whole poem has not fallen within the scope of this
volume, only a
fragment
is here given.
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Thinking
of this, my voice chokes and I ask of Heaven above,
Was I spared from death only to spend the rest of my years in
sorrow?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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How few of the others,
Are men
equipped
with common sense.
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Villon |
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Who
assisted
thee to ravage and to plunder;
I trow thou hadst full many wicked comrades.
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who dost oft return,
Ministering comfort to my nights of woe,
From eyes which Death,
relenting
in his blow,
Has lit with all the lustres of the morn:
How am I gladden'd, that thou dost not scorn
O'er my dark days thy radiant beam to throw!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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{149c} And of
Laberius
against Julius.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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"I see no reason, then, why our metaphysical poets should plume
themselves so much on the utility of their works, unless indeed they
refer to instruction with eternity in view; in which case, sincere
respect for their piety would not allow me to express my
contempt
for
their judgment; contempt which it would be difficult to conceal, since
their writings are professedly to be understood by the few, and it is
the many who stand in need of salvation.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Nightingales are singing from the wood — —
And the moonlight through the lattice streaming Silence —and deep midnight —and one face
"Like a moonlit land, desire's kingdom, Luring from the breast the
homesick
self!
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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And weary was the long patrol,
The thousand miles of
shapeless
strand,
From Brazos to San Blas that roll
Their drifting dunes of desert sand.
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In former years thus did not I
In idleness and
tranquil
joy
The happiest days of life employ?
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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I call to the world to
distrust
the accounts of my friends, but
listen to my enemies, as I myself do,
I charge you forever reject those who would expound me, for I cannot
expound myself,
I charge that there be no theory or school founded out of me,
I charge you to leave all free, as I have left all free.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Methinks
I find her now, and now perceive
She's distant; now I soar, and now descend;
Now what I wish, now what is true believe.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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When I saw that the Senate listened to him favourably and was
being tricked by his imposture, I said to myself, "Come, gods of rascals
and braggarts, gods of all fools, toad-eaters and
braggarts
and thou,
market-place, where I was bred from my earliest days, give me unbridled
audacity, an untiring chatter and a shameless voice.
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Aristophanes |
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Systers in sorrowe, on thys daise-ey'd banke, 15
Where
melancholych
broods, we wyll lamente;
Be wette wythe mornynge dewe and evene danke;
Lyche levynde[10] okes in eche the odher bente,
Or lyche forlettenn[11] halles of merriemente,
Whose gastlie mitches[12] holde the traine of fryghte[13], 20
Where lethale[14] ravens bark, and owlets wake the nyghte.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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If, which our valley bars, this wall of stone,
From which its present name we closely trace,
Were by
disdainful
nature rased, and thrown
Its back to Babel and to Rome its face;
Then had my sighs a better pathway known
To where their hope is yet in life and grace:
They now go singly, yet my voice all own;
And, where I send, not one but finds its place.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Petrarch - Poems |
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He would not
elude the horror of this story by simply not mentioning it, like Homer, or
by
pretending
that an evil act was a good one, like Sophocles.
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Euripides - Electra |
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I have the best of intentions toward you who have now dedicated--
I
recognize
it with thanks--life and writings to me.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Yonder Cluden's silent towers,
Where at moonshine
midnight
hours,
O'er the dewy bending flowers,
Fairies dance so cheery.
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Robert Forst |
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Cestius in life, maybe,
Slew,
breathed
out threatening;
I know not.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Heaven
prepares
good men with crosses; but no ill can
happen to a good man.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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"
I made reply that having already
received
my life at his hands, I
trusted not merely in his good nature but in his help.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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So spake the Eternal Father, and all Heaven
Admiring stood a space, then into Hymns
Burst forth, and in Celestial
measures
mov'd, 170
Circling the Throne and Singing, while the hand
Sung with the voice, and this the argument.
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Milton |
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"
The Green Knight, resting on his axe, looks on Sir Gawayne, as bold and
fearless he there stood, and then with a loud voice thus
addresses
the
knight: "Bold knight, be not so wroth, no man here has wronged thee
(ll.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Again, if Nature, creatress of all things,
Were wont to force all things to be resolved
Unto least parts, then would she not avail
To reproduce from out them anything;
Because whate'er is not endowed with parts
Cannot possess those properties required
Of
generative
stuff--divers connections,
Weights, blows, encounters, motions, whereby things
Forevermore have being and go on.
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Lucretius |
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If any
disclaimer
or limitation set forth in this agreement
violates the law of the state applicable to this agreement, the
agreement shall be interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or
limitation permitted by the applicable state law.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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And many a moon and sun will see
The lingering wistful children wait
To climb upon their father's knee;
And in each house made desolate
Pale women who have lost their lord
Will kiss the relics of the slain--
Some tarnished epaulette--some sword--
Poor toys to soothe such
anguished
pain.
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Wilde - Poems |
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The gem in Eastern mine which slumbers,
Or ruddy gold 'twill not bestow;
'Twill not subdue the turban'd numbers,
Before the Prophet's shrine which bow;
Nor high through air on
friendly
pinions
Can bear thee swift to home and clan,
From mournful climes and strange dominions--
From South to North--my Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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The turf that covers them no thrill
Sends up to fire the heart and brain;
No stronger purpose nerves the will,
No hope renews its youth again:
From farm to farm the Concord glides,
And trails my fancy with its flow;
O'erhead the
balanced
hen-hawk slides,
Twinned in the river's heaven below.
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James Russell Lowell |
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In the
long run, I fancy, the effect of gracious
loveliness
which Alcestis
certainly makes is not so much due to any words of her own as to what the
Handmaid and the Serving Man say about her.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Chor: Look now for no
inchanting
voice, nor fear
The bait of honied words; a rougher tongue
Draws hitherward, I know him by his stride,
The Giant Harapha of Gath, his look
Haughty as is his pile high-built and proud.
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Milton |
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Nay, is not this
Still most despair,--to have halved that bitter fruit,
And ruined, so, the
sweetest
friend I have,
Turning the GREATEST to mine enemy?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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"What are you
thinking
of?
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Slow-moving and black lines go ceaselessly over the earth,
Northerner goes carried, and Southerner goes carried, and they on the
Atlantic side, and they on the Pacific, and they between, and all
through the
Mississippi
country, and all over the earth.
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The wings, the
eyebrows
and ah, the eyes!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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We offer
bubbling
bowls of
warm milk and cups of consecrated blood, and lay the spirit to rest in
her tomb, and with loud voice utter the last call.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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He began:
"Do you 'mind that night beside the beaches When the whole world in one brimming cup,
Earth and sky, the sea, clouds, dews, and starlight, To our lips was lifted, and we drank,
"Dizzy with dread joy and
sacrificial
Rapture of self-loss and sorrow dear,
Deep of beauty's draught, divine nirvana, The bewildering wine of all the world?
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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er were maked
co{m}parysou{n}
of ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Her house he enters, ghastly white,
The
vestibule
finds empty quite--
He enters the saloon.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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AND HOLY HEASTS FORETAUGHT, and holy
commands
previously taught
(them).
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Oozed from the bracken's
desolate
track,
By dark rains havocked and drenched black.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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But then God had
given him at his birth the soul of a poet, as he himself when quite young
had in mystical marriage taken poverty as his bride: and with the soul of
a poet and the body of a beggar he found the way to
perfection
not
difficult.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Amistris too, and he whose strenuous spear
Was foremost in the fight,
Amphistreus
fell,
And gallant Ariomardus, by whose death
Broods sorrow upon Sardis: Mysia mourns
For Seisames, and Tharubis lies low--
Commander, he, of five times fifty ships,
Born in Lyrnessus: his heroic form
Is low in death, ungraced with sepulchre.
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Aeschylus |
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Nor did gentle Eurytion, though he alone struck the bird down from the
lofty sky, grudge him to be
preferred
in honour.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Then, 'twas before my time, the Roman
At yonder heaving hill would stare:
The blood that warms an English yeoman,
The
thoughts
that hurt him, they were there.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Though twenty lances brave each single spear,
Never the foes
superior
might to fear
Is our inheritance, our native right,
Well tried, well prov'd in many a dreadful fight.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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TO TIRZAH
Whate'er is born of mortal birth
Must be consumed with the earth,
To rise from
generation
free:
Then what have I to do with thee?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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SGANARELLE: Thus these vapours of which I speak
passing from the left side, where the liver is, to the right
side where the heart is, it happens that the lungs, which
we call in Latin _armyan_, having communication with the
brain, which in Greek we name _nasmus_, by means of the
_vena cava_, which we call in Hebrew _cubile_, in their way
meet the said vapours, which fill the ventricles of the
omoplata; and as the said vapours--be sure you understand
this argument, I beg you--and as these said vapours have
a certain malignancy--listen
carefully
to this, I pray you.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the
original
volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Thou
shouldst
have called me
to share thy doom; in the self-same hour, the self-same pang of steel
had been our portion.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Suddenly they came to the Yangtze River and
remembered
the waters
of Chiao.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The quiet voice that always counselled best,
The mind that so ironically played
Yet for mere gentleness
forebore
the jest.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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